That may be what people are willing to pay to get a console. But this is more than just a console. It's also a computer. Doesn't make a whole lot of sense if you already own a computer. But if you don't, this will give you both a console (worth ~$300 by your estimates) and a computer, which is probably worth about $300-400 these days. Plus there's the coolness of having the whole thing tied into one system. So you can play both your pc and XBox games in the same place.
The "payload" of the slammer virus was a DOS attack on the local network of the afflicted machine. While very little destruction occured at my office due to the virus, there was definitely a major outage caused until all instances of the virus could be contained. You don't think the money lost due to downtime and the extra man hours needed to remove the virus is "legalally [sic] actionable damage"?
Can someone please explain to me where these jokes started? I keep hearing them, but no matter how much I google, I can't seem to find the source. I know this is of the main topic, but it's on this particular threads topic;)
Some guy spent a couple of hours writing a first draft of a Howto. Thanks Slashdot, I'm sure glad you didn't let this one slip through the cracks! Besides, who cares about these kludgy ways of handling memory. If you don't wan't to worry about memory allocation use C# or java or something. Otherwise, stop eating quiche and write solid code.
What stops someone from stealing the latest pi calculation, tacking on like 3 trillion random digits, then making some phony explaination about how it was calculated. Who checks these things:)
I bet if people start using distorted images of text and even real world objects to prove that the sender is a human, image processing and computer vision would imediately see a boom:)
Free Xbox coverage, eh? Then why is there a story posted today about how much money MS is losing and not one about the launch of Xbox Live? It's pretty ridiculous to claim Slashdot endorses MS, unless you believe in the whole "there's no such thing as bad press" idea.
I have no problem with product placement, as long as it is used in such a way that it doesn't interfere. For instance, in movies, it's natural to see brand name products in scenes, since we see brand name products in our lives. This could also be true for games such as "The Sims". However, I hope that they don't go in the direction some movies have, blatently shoving products down our thoats. Look at the latest Austin Powers installment. It's like watching a Heinekin commercial in some scenes.
As a side note, it's strange that Mike Meyers is such a big offender of product placement overuse, after bashing on it in Wayne's World.
I don't know if many other people use it, but astec-x is a great xserver for windows. It is easy to use and works well. You also don't need cygwin or anything else to run it. Check out www.astec.co.jp for the download. It is a 30 day trial, but you can renew it every time it expires. Good stuff.
Right, so there is no science involved in Kismet. The thing has voice recognition, visual recognition, speech synthesis and various motor skills. There is nothinging at all technical going on though. Also, Cynthia Breazeal is the lead on that project, accourding to the website.
Almost 7% of that article is taken up by the word "free". (For contrast, the word "the" composed just under 5%, including one instance where it was mistakenly repeated). Scary.
Yeah, but as soon as these things become popular, they're gonna get banned on the sidewalks anyway. Can you imaging navigating one of these things down a crowded city sidewalk? Ain't gonna happen.
I read more on this article to learn more about the gameplay, not to here some moron whine about how the game won't work for him. I don't mind if you include that kind of stuff, but if you never actually played the game, don't tout it as a review. How did this get published on slashdot anyway?
Yes this news is about 8 years out of date and yes it isn't much of a prank; however, there is something pretty damn funny on the site. If you read through the documents under the drop descriptions, you can have yourself a laugh at just how sad these people were:) I mean, what kind of loser tapes phone conversations with friends and sends formal letters asking to make sure they work hard enough on their community service!
It seems as though this article was only brought to our attention because of its subject matter and not its merit. I wish I had just read the title and moved on, because it was the only funny line in the article! Oh well, maybe I can write down a few buzz words and get myself linked off of/. too:)
It seems that more and more, especially in the college environment, people are relying on internet based forms of communtications. In my experience, it is not uncommon for people to IM they're neighbor instead of walking next door. Hell, more then once I've had IM conversations with a person I could see across the hall from my dorm room. This has to have some sort of ramifications on the social development of this generation. The sort of ditached reality which comes with online communications could very well be causing serious social changes on these people who depend on it so greatly.
Slashdot Mirror
That may be what people are willing to pay to get a console. But this is more than just a console. It's also a computer. Doesn't make a whole lot of sense if you already own a computer. But if you don't, this will give you both a console (worth ~$300 by your estimates) and a computer, which is probably worth about $300-400 these days. Plus there's the coolness of having the whole thing tied into one system. So you can play both your pc and XBox games in the same place.
April Fools ;)
The "payload" of the slammer virus was a DOS attack on the local network of the afflicted machine. While very little destruction occured at my office due to the virus, there was definitely a major outage caused until all instances of the virus could be contained. You don't think the money lost due to downtime and the extra man hours needed to remove the virus is "legalally [sic] actionable damage"?
Correction:
Step 4: The emulator which is deamed most human-like by the winning detector, wins.
Hardware BYTES is more like it! hahahah... I kill me.
Oh that Whitey. As a former Bostonian and alumn of UMASS, I'm pulling for the guy. Go Whitey! He's way stealthier than that Waldo chump.
Can someone please explain to me where these jokes started? I keep hearing them, but no matter how much I google, I can't seem to find the source. I know this is of the main topic, but it's on this particular threads topic ;)
Some guy spent a couple of hours writing a first draft of a Howto. Thanks Slashdot, I'm sure glad you didn't let this one slip through the cracks! Besides, who cares about these kludgy ways of handling memory. If you don't wan't to worry about memory allocation use C# or java or something. Otherwise, stop eating quiche and write solid code.
What stops someone from stealing the latest pi calculation, tacking on like 3 trillion random digits, then making some phony explaination about how it was calculated. Who checks these things :)
>I can fly circles around all but the most experienced vi user
You want a cookie or a cartwheel? vi is for quiche-eaters. Use ed.
I bet if people start using distorted images of text and even real world objects to prove that the sender is a human, image processing and computer vision would imediately see a boom :)
Free Xbox coverage, eh? Then why is there a story posted today about how much money MS is losing and not one about the launch of Xbox Live? It's pretty ridiculous to claim Slashdot endorses MS, unless you believe in the whole "there's no such thing as bad press" idea.
I have no problem with product placement, as long as it is used in such a way that it doesn't interfere. For instance, in movies, it's natural to see brand name products in scenes, since we see brand name products in our lives. This could also be true for games such as "The Sims". However, I hope that they don't go in the direction some movies have, blatently shoving products down our thoats. Look at the latest Austin Powers installment. It's like watching a Heinekin commercial in some scenes.
As a side note, it's strange that Mike Meyers is such a big offender of product placement overuse, after bashing on it in Wayne's World.
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I don't know if many other people use it, but astec-x is a great xserver for windows. It is easy to use and works well. You also don't need cygwin or anything else to run it. Check out www.astec.co.jp for the download. It is a 30 day trial, but you can renew it every time it expires. Good stuff.
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Apparently the poster is non-english literate. (how=who).
Right, so there is no science involved in Kismet. The thing has voice recognition, visual recognition, speech synthesis and various motor skills. There is nothinging at all technical going on though. Also, Cynthia Breazeal is the lead on that project, accourding to the website.
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Does this mean I'm going to have to hug my computer to get it to boot?
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Almost 7% of that article is taken up by the word "free". (For contrast, the word "the" composed just under 5%, including one instance where it was mistakenly repeated). Scary.
Yeah, but as soon as these things become popular, they're gonna get banned on the sidewalks anyway. Can you imaging navigating one of these things down a crowded city sidewalk? Ain't gonna happen.
I read more on this article to learn more about the gameplay, not to here some moron whine about how the game won't work for him. I don't mind if you include that kind of stuff, but if you never actually played the game, don't tout it as a review. How did this get published on slashdot anyway?
Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?
Oh wait, I just found some using google.
Yes this news is about 8 years out of date and yes it isn't much of a prank; however, there is something pretty damn funny on the site. If you read through the documents under the drop descriptions, you can have yourself a laugh at just how sad these people were :) I mean, what kind of loser tapes phone conversations with friends and sends formal letters asking to make sure they work hard enough on their community service!
It seems as though this article was only brought to our attention because of its subject matter and not its merit. I wish I had just read the title and moved on, because it was the only funny line in the article! Oh well, maybe I can write down a few buzz words and get myself linked off of /. too :)
It seems that more and more, especially in the college environment, people are relying on internet based forms of communtications. In my experience, it is not uncommon for people to IM they're neighbor instead of walking next door. Hell, more then once I've had IM conversations with a person I could see across the hall from my dorm room. This has to have some sort of ramifications on the social development of this generation. The sort of ditached reality which comes with online communications could very well be causing serious social changes on these people who depend on it so greatly.